Jean Valentine Poet Jean Valentine has been contributing poems to our literature for half a century. Her first book, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1965. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 won the National Book Award in 2004, and her most recent book, Break the Glass, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.… read more »
Marc Van De Mieroop Professor, History, Columbia University Marc Van De Mieroop is a historian of the ancient Near East and Egypt from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander of Macedon. Besides teaching at Columbia University, he has taught at the University of Oxford and at Yale University.… read more »
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele Mortmer D. Sackler, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools in the pursuit of new treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related genetic syndromes. As a predoctoral fellow, medical student, and resident, he trained in human molecular genetics in the laboratory at the University of Chicago.… read more »
Athena Viscusi Psychosocial Care Specialist at MSF/Doctors without Borders USA Athena Viscusi is currently the Psychosocial Care Specialist at MSF/Doctors without Borders USA, providing support to field workers before, after, and during deployment abroad. As a Mental Health Officer with MSF, she directed mental health and psychosocial programs for MSF in Haiti, South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, and Palestine.… read more »
Christine Vitrano Associate Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY Christine Vitrano is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of The Nature and Value of Happiness. She is coauthor, with Steven M. Cahn, of Happiness and Goodness: Philosophical Reflections on Living Well and they also coedited Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy.… read more »
Morris Vogel President, the Tenement Museum Morris J. Vogel has been president of New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum since 2008. He trained as an American social and urban historian at Brandeis University (B.A. 1967) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1974), before joining the faculty of Temple University in Philadelphia in 1973, where he was promoted to professor in 1985.… read more »
Tyler Volk Tyler Volk is professor of biology and environmental studies at New York University. In his just-released book, Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be (Columbia University Press, May, 2017) Volk explores a rhythm within what he calls the “grand sequence,” which has progressed as a series of levels of sizes and innovations from elementary quanta to globalized human civilization.… read more »
Dorothea von Mücke Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Professor Dorothea von Mücke holds a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and has been teaching at Columbia since 1988. She has held visiting professorships in Berlin and Giessen. Representative courses: Eighteenth-Century Semiotics and Aesthetics, Heinrich von Kleist, Rousseau and Goethe, The Romantic Fantastic, Paradigms of Feminist Scholarship, Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature and Psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and Visuality, Faust and Media, Classical Drama.… read more »